"As I was saying" Harry continued "the one thing Ginny and your brothers have in common is they worked hard to get to where they are and where they wanted to go. They put effort into class, other than the twins at least but they at least had the decency to not blame their academic failures on others. They tried the best and when things went wrong they didn't go in a strop like a five year old and blame the rest of the world and those had succeeded. You may not realise how much you sounded like Malfoy when you were talking" Ron looked absolutely insulted, not only was he compared to the spoilt Slytherin but the others seemed to be in agreement, well except for Hermione as she was still sulking
"The people who blame other people for what goes wrong in your life are usually the ones who stay behind. Either try your best or live knowing that you didn't, either way stop complaining, if I wanted to talk to a child then I'd find one." Ginny knew Ron was considering his words until that lost comment, she knew that his anger and pride where what would probably do him in one day. From what she knew about Harry she knew that he also knew, in his eyes this was probably a test of character, one that Ron had failed.
"I'm not a child!" He roared
"Aren't you?" Harry raised an eyebrow "you're complaining about me being better off at you in certain points in life without being appreciative of your own, you whine and complain when things go your way and you even attacked me because you were upset then complained when it didn't work. What's next, you going to blame Dumbledore for being more powerful than you?" Speaking off a letter landed in Dumbledore's lap just as he entered and sat down.
"That's probably the court letter" Ginny guessed
"What court letter?" Hermione asked
"Until Sirius gets approved by the ministry to take care of me, Dumbledore is my legal guardian as he's the headmaster and I have no other guardian" Harry explained "I wrote a letter to the court saying I want Remus Lupin to be my guardian instead, shame he has to tell people he's a werewolf."
"Lupins a werewolf?" Ron shivered "why one earth would you rather have him as your guardian?"
"Because unlike you I don't care if he has to transform once a month, plus besides, Dumbledore the one who out me with my muggle relatives in the first place and wants me to go back to them and I'm going to death before I do that, even though if I do I'd probably end there anyway" Harry and Ginny walked off leaving the stunned crowd behind, he heard Dumbledore calling him but pretended not to hear him.
"I'm sorry" Harry whispered "I shouldn't have told them all that"
"It's alright Harry, you were angry"
"No that's not what I mean, we need to change the plan slightly, you're not going to testify"
"What? Why?" Ginny asked
"Because before we could barley pull of you not agreeing with me in court but after all of that we can't so you're going to want to 'stay out of this', in private you'll tell your mother that you care for me but don't really want to go against Dumbledore in private. You'll cry on her shoulder and talk about how you wanted to believe me but couldn't, then you'll go on with some rubbish about how if you'd realise then you would have stopped me. If possible then convince your mother that your making progress on me wanting to join the light side, maybe tell her you stopped me from practising evil spells or argued against me if I remotely even suggested agreeing. Can you do all that?"
"I'm not the twins hidden prankster for no reason you know" Ginny smiled "if I can convince Ron that the spiders prefer to gravitate towards girls at night then I can convince her of all that, besides, I'd do anything for you"
"I love you too" Harry kissed her cheek "you tell the change of plan to Flitwick and Sprout while then do the same for Snape, Remus and McGonagall, as soon as possible. Call Stink and Dobby to help spread the message, do it quickly so you don't get caught, while you're doing that I'll go back into the great hall to get that bag I 'forgot' to take with me. Perhaps Dumbledore is still there." Ginny smirked as Harry returned to the hall, Dumbledore was halfway down the Gryffindor table when he noticed Dumbledore, Ron and Hermione standing there with spiky pink hair and the rest of the hall laughing. What was funnier was the longer your hair was the higher up the hair spiked, that was probably why Dumbledore with his hair was now at least ten foot, the fact that there were more students there then just a minute ago made things even more brilliant
"Privacy charms" Harry explained as he rushed over and grabbed his bag out of the headmasters hand "you two really shouldn't be looking through another students bag, you could get detention for that and headmaster, I'm ashamed of you. Your spreading a bad example to these kids"
"Harry" Harry loved when Dumbledore's twinkle was replaced with rage, it gave him a very satisfied feeling "would you care to explain this letter I received?"
"Certainly" Harry grinned "you want to be my guardian but I don't want you to be. Because you want to put me with my abusive magic-hating muggle relatives" Harry said that last part loud enough for everyone to hear, before continuing in his normal confident voice "I however would rather die, now as that's a bit extreme I've gone for the next option after running away, I'm going to have someone else file to be my temporary guardian and you have to attend the court matter tomorrow"
"Who may I ask?" Everyone knew Dumbledore was demanding to know
"Me" Remus calmly walked in and placed a hand on Harry's shoulder
"Remus?" Dumbledore couldn't believe it
"Yes, I cannot in good conscious stand by and allow you to send Harry back to those muggles. Truth be told I've lost a lot of respect for you as well, which is why I have no problem with allowing Harry to charge you from stealing from his account and aiding in child abuse"
"How dare you?!" Dumbledore bellowed "after all I've done?! I'm the one who allowed you into school and I gave you a job when no one else wouldn't!"
"Yes" Remus replied "and I'm sure the fact that my parents were paying you well for it and the fact that I was the only one willing to take the position had nothing to do with it. Now I shall see you tomorrow, me and Harry have to go and prepare for court. If you don't wish for me to continue as a teacher then leave a letter in my office and I'll come and collect my things the day after court, goodbye" With that the two walked out, not before Dumbledore had one more thing to say
"Harry, please remove this" He gestured to his spiky hair
"Sorry Professor" Harry smiled broadly "that lasts a week a week"
"A week?!" He exclaimed "but the court matter is tomorrow"
"Don't blame me, I'm not the one who made that particular defence, the one's I made were a lot less fun. Some funny, but not as fun. See you tomorrow"
"Wait, you can't leave, as your guardian I am ordering you to stay"
"Actually he can" Remus looked at him smugly "when a child's custody is in question then according to the law he has no guardian until the court points one, now as Harry can do what he wants and the fact that he's doing it with a teacher means he can leave the grounds. I bid you goodbye" The two hurried out before Dumbledore could say anything.
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